New York-Sana
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, reaffirmed the need to hold the states that support terrorism in Syria to account and to oblige them to stop their violations of international law and the United Nations Charter, stressing that the Security Council’s failure to assume its responsibilities in this regard encourages terrorists and their sponsors to persist in their crimes.
In a statement he presented to the presidency of the Security Council during today's session on “The threat of terrorist acts to international peace and security,” Jaafari indicated that the Council's unanimous adoption of Resolution No. 1373 on September 28, 2001, represented a milestone in the instruments against terrorism and the collective international efforts aimed at combating it through a number of The procedures indicating that twenty years after the adoption of the aforementioned decision and with the great developments that humanity has witnessed during this period and at various levels, it must be recognized that terrorism also has taken many modern forms and differed in its means and methods of spread from what we have known previously, especially with the use of technological development in the process of spreading. Speech of hate and hatred ”and the influence on the minds of young people and their attraction to hatred, extremism, discrimination, and the elimination of others and their atonement.
Al-Jaafari explained that since what preceded the events of September 2001 and until today, the phenomenon of terrorism and extremist ideology has spread in most countries of the world without exception. Perhaps the latest version of the spread of terrorism and genetically modified terrorists has manifested itself in Syria, and it is a terrorism of various forms and names, starting with what is known as the "Al-Nusra Front." And “Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar”, “Sultan Murad Group”, “Fajr al-Islam”, “Jund al-Aqsa”, “Nour al-Din al-Zanki Movement” and “Liwa al-Tawhid” and other terrorist organizations that have reached the ceiling of their terrorism with “ISIS” whose terrorism was not limited On the Syrian people, but on the peoples of the region and the world as well.
Al-Jaafari stressed that Syria is carrying out its responsibilities to protect its people, its open culture, and its multiple and rich civilizations from attempts at murder and annulment at the hands of terrorism, and ten years after the start of the terrorist campaign against it, it continues to carry the banner of combating terrorism relentlessly on behalf of the whole world and is constantly seeking to strengthen joint international efforts aimed at eliminating Concerning the threat that terrorism poses to international security and peace, the safety and stability of states, the progress and the well-being of peoples, pointing out that the early awareness and race for the government and people of Syria of the dangers of the spread of terrorism and its tools in the region and the world was the basic evidence on which the efforts that governments that still respect the Charter and international law have engaged in in order to stand In the face of this tide of atonement and blind extremism based on excluding, atonement and eradicating the other, she renews her call to everyone to share the same vision that many governments exporting terrorists have been investing in for years until the people of the whole world, without exception, have tasted the bitter taste of terrorism and violent extremism.
Al-Jaafari emphasized that the preference for narrow national interests by some countries, foremost among which is the European Union, pushed them to devise selfish solutions that were ultimately based on the same mentality that caused the emergence and spread of the phenomenon of "foreign terrorists". These solutions came in the form of individual policies aimed at abandoning governmental responsibilities. In preventing terrorists from heading to Syria and Iraq on the one hand and preventing the return of these terrorists and their families to their homes or countries of residence on the other hand, including the adoption of laws that provide for the withdrawal of nationality from terrorists and their families or the abolition of their residency, as we think these governments will ward off the threat of terrorism and keep the sword of terrorism hanging. On the Syrian people.
Al-Jaafari explained that to this day, there are large numbers of foreign terrorists and their families in Syria, and they are present in a number of camps controlled by separatist armed groups affiliated with the American occupation forces, the most important of which is Al-Hol camp in Hasakah Governorate, where the process of creating a new generation of terrorists and extremists continues within these camps. Men, women and youth have become involved in terrorism and therefore cannot be seen as victims of it or of violent extremism, which calls for a firm and urgent treatment of this threat.
Al-Jaafari stressed that Syria has not and will not shirk its international obligations towards the process of pursuing and holding terrorists accountable and rehabilitating their families, which is primarily the responsibility of the countries of the whole world to recover its terrorists with their family members from Syria again, Syria's support for the United Nations efforts and efforts in combating terrorism and drying up its sources, and it will provide all Help is required to eliminate its remnants, as it stresses its position in support of the principles of international humanitarian law and relevant Security Council resolutions. It is time to move out of the theoretical framework in fighting terrorism into a realistic framework and translate the statements of certain countries on the ground and assume their responsibility towards the spread of terrorism in the world in general and in Syria. In particular.
Al-Jaafari pointed out the necessity of confronting extremist takfiri ideas and incitement to violence and terrorism, and working to cut and dry up terrorist organizations' financing resources that come from direct support provided by some countries and indirect support resulting from entering some of those countries in financial dealings such as paying bribes and ransoms, in commercial dealings in oil and gas, and stolen antiquities. With terrorist organizations, especially "ISIS" and "Al-Nusra Front", and stressing the need to prevent the supply of terrorist groups with weapons and ammunition, especially chemical weapons and the materials for their production and release.
Al-Jaafari said: Everyone should realize that terrorism has one concept around the world and over the years, namely hatred, hatred, killing and destruction. There is no lawful terrorism, forbidden terrorism, or positive extremism and negative extremism, as there may be many forms of terrorism, but its content is one, as the destruction of countries, overthrowing governments, killing and displacing millions of people Other countries, including permanent members of the Security Council under the name of combating terrorism, as happened in Afghanistan and Iraq, and is happening today in Yemen, Libya and others. Some consider it a welcome collective effort to eradicate terrorism or "lawful terrorism," while other countries' efforts to exercise their right and their natural and legitimate duty are considered Defending its children and its future is unlawful and unwelcome at the international level and accusations are directed against it while turning a blind eye to the responsibility of many countries in the United Nations Organization for supporting, sponsoring, financing, arming and spreading terrorism in my country, pointing out that the policy of double standards adopted by a number of member states constitutes The most suitable environment for the continuation, growth and spread of terrorism in Syria and other regions around the world.
Al-Jaafari stressed the need to translate the implementation mechanisms on the ground and track the results of those decisions and to develop the anti-terrorism instruments that have been adopted, including Security Council resolutions 1267, 1373, 1624, 2170, 2178, 2199 and 2253, and the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy into full and strict implementation, away from politicization, manipulation and double standards. Refrain from ignoring the documented reports and information provided by some member states about the support of some governments to terrorism, recalling Resolution No. 2178 of 2015 to prevent the flow of foreign terrorists to Syria and Iraq through Turkish territory and Resolution No. 2170 of 2015 on draining the sources of financial, military and logistical support and funding for terrorist organizations, especially "ISIS" and "Al-Nusra Front."
Al-Jaafari stressed the need to hold the states that support terrorism to account and to oblige them to stop their violations of international law and the United Nations Charter and the necessity to address hate speech, atonement and destructive extremist ideas and false teachings that have nothing to do with human civilization and to incite violence and terrorism and to prevent stereotyping, discrimination and persecution based on religion, nationality, race or Color, gender, or other factors have been a form of collective punishment on groups of people.